A tractor travels south Thursday from Highway G in Portage County, crossing Highway M, while heading onto Third Avenue South in the town of Carson.

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Concern of the potential damage farm equipment, that is becoming increasingly larger, can do to roads is causing officials to look for ways to handle the situation.

The Wisconsin Department of Transportation, DOT, and Department of Agriculture, Trade and Consumer Protection, DATCP, put together the Instruments of Husbandry Study Group last fall to look at the damage agricultural equipment is doing to roads and highways. The group is made up of members of organizations that would be impacted by any changes in regulations, including the Wisconsin Farm Bureau Federation, the ...